“Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fearlove did.”

“I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.”

“Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.”

“Werewolf games," Mercy said solemnly, "play for keeps, or go home." She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.”

“Into the breach, then. Against mobs of middle-aged moms and frightening harridans we shall prevail.She nodded sharply, raising an invisible sword. And damned be heshewho cries, Hold, enough!Misquot...”

“Yes," he said sincerely. "Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.”

“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when its dark”

“She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.”